The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
Subtitle: a political history
By: James A. Wooten.
Contributors: Milbank Memorial Fund.
Series: California/Milbank books on health and the public ;; 11
Publisher: University of California Press; Milbank Memorial Fund; Employee Benefit Research Institute
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley; New York; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: United States. -- History.; Pension trusts -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.; Pension trusts -- United States -- History.
Description: "This study of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) explains in detail how public officials in the executive branch and Congress overcame strong opposition from business and organized labor to pass landmark legislation regulating employer-sponsored retirement and health plans."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-399) and index.
Table of contents: title: Policy-making for private pensions : the genesis and structure of a policy domain; title: "The most glorious story of failure in the business" : the Studebaker-Packard corporation and the origins of ERISA; title: "The 'bible' in this field" : the president's committee on corporate pension funds and the origins of ERISA; title: "A new legislative era in this country" : pension reform from blueprint to bill; title: "A major American institution, built upon human disappointment" : agenda-setting in the U.S. Senate; title: A green light in the Senate; title: A donnybrook in the House; title: Enacting ERISA.